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I currently have the following map setup to allow me to quickly create a pair of parens by tapping ( twice, leaving the cursor between them for more typing:

imap (( ()<left>

Separately, I have another map for skipping over the closing paren when it already exists. That is, if you type ) when there is already a ) to the right of the cursor, instead of inserting another ) the cursor just jumps over the existing one:

inoremap <expr> )  strpart(getline('.'), col('.')-1, 1) == ")" ? "\<Right>" : ")"

The problem occurs in the interaction of these two maps. That is, say my code is:

func(foo)

I realize that foo is not a value, but a function, and what I really want is to pass the return value from calling foo() to func, so I go ahead and move my cursor -- signified by | between the o and ):

func(foo|)

Now what I want to do is simply tap ( twice, which will trigger my first map and leave me with:

func(foo())

But in fact, because of my second map, what I get is this:

func(foo()

How can I create an exception to my 2nd map so that it won't interfere with this specific case? That is, when the typed ) is caused by another map rather than by me physically hitting a key, I don't want the 2nd map to be triggered.

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Unless I misunderstood you, all you need to do is change your first map to:

inoremap (( ()<left>

This will ignore mappings on the right side and therefore will not trigger your second mapping. I tried it out and is seemed to work for me.

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